Intrasite Scheduling for Interference Avoidance in LTE

A novel method of intra-site interference avoidance is developed that seeks a balance between intra-site resource orthogonality and independent frequency selectivity. The method is compared against existing time and frequency selective scheduling approaches, as well as a static priority based interference avoidance scheme. The intra-site method promoted obtains better total and percentile throughputs compared to the schemes examined, and demonstrates the benefits that access to intra-site scheduling information can realise. Statistically robust results are obtained through system level simulations of LTE in the downlink direction only.